notes from the understory (level 5)
such that dust without my knowing
is a subtle swirling viscosity surrounding you & me
always or only the ‘always’ I know as this life
dust is the cohesion & creates coherence between us
dust of what all of us are & have been or at least
this planet’s numinous phenomenal ‘all of us’ as such
its consistency heightens my facility to sense
the dead
whom I can’t recognize without allowing for
what will become of me
Rusty Morrison is an ARC 2020 Poetry and the Senses fellow. This poem was written while on fellowship and recently published in the Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2020, pg 54), available here.